Hans Schilling, “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (detail) in Barlaam and Josaphat, 1469. J. Paul Getty Museum.
My dissertation seeks to identify the motives and priorities that guided the author of Jubilees in his rewriting of the biblical stories concerning the matriarchs and asks if Jubilees was unique in its foregrounding of female characters or dealt with them in a manner that was typical of the then literary Zeitgeist.
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